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UN Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic will stay in Ukraine on a working visit from May 28 to June 4, the press service of the Batkivschyna party has said.

According to the press service, Simonovic met with the chairman of the parliamentary committee for human rights, national minorities and interethnic relations (the Batkivschyna faction), Hryhoriy Nemyria, and discussed the situation with human rights in connection with the conflict in the east of Ukraine.

Nemyria told Simonovic about the decision to create a monitoring group composed of the people’s deputies of Ukraine on the rights of internally displaced persons and citizens of Ukraine living in the ATO zone.